The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 57
She ordered her carriage to be turned round and drove slowly back into the town, never taking her eyes off Peter and his procession.
Who acts: Princess, carriage, Peter · What happens: order, turn round, drive, not take, proceed · To what, where: carriage, eyes, Peter
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, carriage, Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1903): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 4 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 turned | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 turned | aux:pass |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 turned | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drove | cc |
| 10 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 drove | advmod |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 drove | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 back | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 taking | punct |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 taking | advmod |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 drove | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 taking | obj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 Peter | case |
| 22 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 taking | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 procession | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 procession | nmod:poss |
| 25 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Peter | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Princess | Princess's carriage | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent carriage=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | turn round not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Princess's carriage not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V» | |||||
| 3 | drive | past | Princess not said here | slowly property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not take | gerund | Princess not said here | Princess's eyes | Peter and Peter's procession | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off peter=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | proceed | Peter | nom procession «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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